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Trading Places
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If your LP is higher than your opponent’s, switch your LP with your opponent.
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Can Be Found In: Extreme Force (EXFO-EN065), 2018 Mega-Tin Mega Pack (MP18-EN212)
Some cards will require to think outside the box, as their effects are counterproductive for the average Deck. With heavy costs or abilities that greatly benefit the opponent, these cards are usually ignored and seen as common cards filling certain releases. However, once the playerbase investigates the possibilities with other cards’ interactions, these effects can become not only quite benefitial but might also give us an unusual victory condition. While far from a competitive pick, these are cards that makes Duels more interesting for both players due their particular combo potential.
“Trading Places” probably gives us one of the worst outcomes we could ask during a Duel. If our Life Points are higher than the opponent, the activation of “Trading Places” will make both players switch Life Points with each other. Potentially putting us at risk as the opponent might gain a respectable quantity of Life Points, “Trading Places” is undoubtly an extremely counterproductive card. However, “Trading Places” has some options to work along with which despite not making it a powerful card compared to other cards with negative effects, it can make some rarely seen cards effective by turning a Duel against us.
Activating “Trading Places” is simple, as all we have to is to deal damage to the opponent while keeping our Life Points higher than theirs. An easy task obtainable by your average Deck, “Trading Places” won’t need an opponent to be at their bare minimum of Life Points to be activated, although depending of the cards we are playing along with might need a big difference between players. Some cards like “Emerging Emergency Rescute Rescue” and “Jurassic Impact” will only need a small difference to obtain their best performance, while others like “Elemental HERO Air Neos” and “Soul Drain Dragon” will become stronger the lower our Life Points are. More specific strategies will abuse some of their best cards to gain advantage and prepare special conditions, like Stalling with “Frozen Soul” as we draw cards by “Hope for Escape”, or Psychic Decks gaining several benefits from “Psychic Sword” and “Psychic Trigger”. But at the same way “Trading Places” can make certain cards work it can also make them useless, as some effects like the mentioned “Megamorph” and “Ancient Sacred Wyvern” will have severe demerits by making the opponent have more Life Points than us.
Although some counterproductive cards like “The Bistro Butcher” and “Gift Card” became powerful tools under the right build, “Trading Places” is in a complicated situation. The Spell Card has various cards to work along with an obtain a variety of results, but instead of trying to deal damage to play this card we could obtain the same results as soon the opponent deals non lethal damage or by playing cards requiring Life Point costs. Also, the classic “Reversal Quiz” does a similar job and became a well known OTK setup, as we can give our Life Points to the opponent once we can defeat them by some basic effect damage. “Trading Places” might have some potential in the future, but unless we really need to counter a card like “Megamorph” the effect that produces can be achieved by a single opponent’s attack or effect.
Personal Rating: D+
+Trades our Life Points with the opponent if are lower than theirs
+Has some interactions along cards requiring low Life Points
+ Can counter some opponent cards’ effects
-Its effect and the cards that can play with can be achieved simply by the opponent dealing damage or paying certain costs
- “Reversal Quiz” does a similar but more favorable effect
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Tomorrow is the last brunch of 2017 for the Glasgow Chapter of Geek Girl Brunch! Our theme is Christmas Films, and tonight I’ve been putting the final touch to brunch activities. So how can I not write today’s Christmas Feast blogpost about the food in Christmas films? I’ve already written one post on the four food groups in Elf, so today I thought I would look at something grittier, if you can imagine that adjective been applied to a Christmas film, but still funny. Hello, Trading Places (1983)! If you haven’t seen it, it’s very funny, rather clever, but also difficult to watch in places. To avoid potential spoilers, here’s the film poster to provide a buffer.
The film takes a good look at racism, and some scenes are genuinely horrifying. Having watched the film again a few days ago – it’s on the Sky Christmas film channel a lot at the moment – the rich white men in their members’ only club, refusing to help the homeless Billy Ray Valentine as one of their own falsely accuses him of theft, as police surround him and point their guns at him, could easily happen now, and could easily become a murder, in Trump’s America. Such scenes make Dan Akroyd’s blackface disguise on the train a really strange choice, at best. While disguises chosen by the other characters are inexplicable, and Jamie Lee Curtis’s ridiculous Austrian/Swedish ‘milkmaid gone backpacking’ outfit almost as infuriating, the blackface is the worst, and is completely unjustified by the plot. There’s no excuse (or for the aforementioned milkmaid, to be clear). I recommend reading Hadley Freeman’s discussionof Trading Places as her guilty pleasure.
Having just written that paragraph, I feel incredibly superficial in returning to my original theme. Is the more serious issue trivialised by my continuing to write about delicious food? The latter was all I initially intended to discuss today. I will try to get back to that thread, and hope that it is not too jarring.
I’ve created a Trading Places feast using recipes from the BBC’s excellent collection. If you are stuck with an odd assortment of food, and don’t quite know what to make with them, use the Ingredients A to Z to see what comes up.
Coleman will bring hors d’oeuvres and mimosas (made from champagne and orange juice, popular drinks for different reasons in the story), as you settle down in front of a roaring fire. Then, given that the stock market value of different foods and drinks is also an important part of the plot, the meal proper will start with ‘Christmas Pâté with Pistachios’, which contains pork belly and liver (not that of cattle or hog, unfortunately, merely that of the humble chicken, but we must endure).
Christmas pâté with pistachios
Preparation time: less than 30 mins
Cooking time: 1 to 2 hours
Serves 8A rich make-ahead pâté that’s perfect party food or makes a great starter – delicious with pickled onions, toast and salad. By Michel Roux Jr, from Christmas Kitchen with James Martin
Equipment: You will need a 1.5 litres/2½ pints terrine mould.Ingredients
3 corn fed chicken breasts, skin removed
100g/3½oz chicken livers
180g/6oz pork belly, minced
1 tsp salt
2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 unwaxed lemon, zest only
2 shallots, finely sliced
2 sprigs lemon thyme, leaves picked
50g/1¾oz pistachios, blanched
20 thin slices streaky baconMethod
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Cut each chicken breast into three big slices and set aside.Mix the chicken livers into the minced pork and season with the salt and pepper. Add the lemon zest, shallots, thyme leaves and pistachios.
Line a terrine mould or loaf tin with the bacon, leaving enough overhanging to cover the top when filled. Press in the mince and chicken pieces and cover completely with the bacon.
Place the mould in a roasting tin filled with enough water to reach half way up the side of the mould.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.
Allow to cool for 24 hours in the fridge then slice. Serve with pickled onions or gherkins, toast and salad leaves.
The main course in a Trading Places feast has to be created around a whole salmon.
Source: A Dash of Cinema
If you wish to steal yours from your former employer’s staff Christmas party, then eat it on the bus, more power to you, but I’m looking to create a fancier dish as befits a proper feast. Roasting the whole salmon seemed like a wonderful idea.
Preparation time: less than 30 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins to 1 hour
Serves 12A classic dish good at buffets and for large number of guests. Can be prepared in advance.
Ingredients
1 whole salmon, 3-4kg/6.5-10lb in weight, gutted and cleaned
4 sprigs fresh parsley
½ lemon, sliced
2 bay leaves
150ml/5fl oz dry white wine
2 tbsp vegetable oilMethod
Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
Take 2 large sheets of foil and place on top of each other in a roasting tin. Spread the oil on the foil and place the salmon on top.
Put the parsley, lemon slices and bay leaves into the body cavity. Fold the edges of the foil together but just before sealing, pour in the wine.
Bake the fish for 50-60 minutes.
Serve hot or cold. If you want to serve it cold, allow the fish to cool in the parcel and then gently peel off the skin and garnish with thinly sliced cucumber and watercress.
I would choose to serve it with charred asparagus tips and baked potatoes with wonderfully crispy skins. Doesn’t that sound fantastic?
In the film, Coleman prepares crêpes Suzette at the dinner table as Winthorp and Penelope are eating their main course. I couldn’t resist using James Martin’s recipe which involves a “sticky orange sauce and a creamy citrus syllabub”, once again because of frozen orange juice’s starring role.
Ingredients
For the syllabub
250g/9oz mascarpone
1 heaped tbsp icing sugar
400ml/14fl oz double cream
2 clementines, 1 juiced, 1 sliced
200g/7oz ready-made orange or passion fruit curd
2 sprigs fresh mintFor the crêpes
125g/4½oz plain flour
1 free-range egg
300ml/10½fl oz milk
25g/1oz butterFor the sauce
75g/2¾oz caster sugar
50ml/2fl oz brandy
4 clementines
1 lemon, juice only
25g/1oz unsalted butterMethod
For the syllabub, whisk the mascarpone and icing sugar together in a large bowl until smooth. Gradually pour in the double cream, whisking continuously until the mixture is pale and thick.
Fold in the clementine juice and orange or passion fruit curd to create a ripple effect.
Spoon the syllabub mixture into a piping bag and pipe it into glass serving dishes. Top each with a slice of clementine and a sprig of mint. Chill in the fridge until ready to serve – the syllabubs will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days, covered.
For the crêpes, whisk the flour and egg together in a large bowl. Gradually add the milk to form a smooth batter with the consistency of double cream.
Heat a little of the butter in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add a ladleful of the crêpe batter to the pan and swirl to coat the bottom evenly. Fry for 1-2 minutes, then flip the pancake and cook for a further minute, or until golden-brown on both sides. Remove the crêpe from the pan and place on a sheet of greaseproof paper. Keep warm.
Repeat the process with the remaining butter and crêpe batter, stacking the crêpes between layers of greaseproof paper.
For the sauce, heat the sugar in a frying pan over a medium heat until the sugar melts and caramelises. Add the brandy and set alight with a match. Allow the flames to flare up and die down. (Caution: Keep the flames away from your eyes and face and make sure the extractor fan is not turned on). Stir in the juice from 2 of the clementines, the lemon juice, and the zest from 1 clementine, then segment the last 2 clementines and add them to the pan. Finally, stir in the butter until it has melted and the sauce has thickened.
To serve, fold the crêpes into quarters and arrange on serving plates. Spoon over the warm orange sauce. Serve the syllabub alongside.
Would you like a coffee and eggnog, back in front of the roaring fire, to finish your evening?
This post is brought to you by BBC2’s The Sweetmakers at Christmas, which was on in the background while I was writing. Even with only one eye on the TV, it was fascinating, and very timely for my Christmas Feast blogging series. Quick! To the iPlayer!
15 December 2017: Christmas film feasts Tomorrow is the last brunch of 2017 for the Glasgow Chapter of Geek Girl Brunch! Our theme is Christmas Films, and tonight I’ve been putting the final touch to brunch activities.
